Josephine Margaret Mitchell (June 30, 1912 – December 28, 2000) was a Canadian-American mathematician specializing in the mathematical analysis of functions of several complex variables.
She went to Bryn Mawr College for graduate study, earning a master's degree in 1941 and completing her Ph.D. in 1942.
[5] In 1948, Mitchell became an assistant professor at the Oklahoma Agricultural and Mechanical College,[6] and later the same year moved to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
[10][11] She and her husband obtained positions at Pennsylvania State University in 1958;[8] unusually among American universities, Penn State took advantage of the post-war availability of women in the academic job market to strengthen its reputation by hiring many strong women faculty members.
When a flood destroyed the mathematics library of Charles University in Prague, their books and journals—which were given to the AMS as a part of a bequest—were sent to help replace it.